The mayor for Greater Manchester spoke out at the recent GMCA meeting
The scrapping of HS2 has left Greater Manchester with an ‘opportunity’, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has told council bosses.
“You will be aware of the very public debate and the manner in which the decisions were made which we don’t think were done in the right way at all,” Mr Burnham told Bury Town Hall.“There are opportunities that have arisen from what has been announced. The 12bn for a new line between Liverpool and Manchester has given us a new role to shape that new line and its route.
Turning to issues more local to Greater Manchester, Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett took the floor as he addressed a ‘humanitarian crisis’ happening right now in the area - homelessness. The deputy mayor for Greater Manchester put the blame firmly at the door of the government for why there is huge strain being felt in local authority homelessness services.
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